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LIS EDUCATION AND THE ROLE OF
LIBRARY IN EDUCATION IN SWEDEN
[email protected]
The Swedish School of Library and
Information Science (SSLIS)
at Göteborg University and Högskolan i Borås
Today’s presentation
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Context for libraries in Sweden
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LIS and LIS education in Sweden
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Economic and society
Legal
Some numbers
Departments
EX: BHS/Swedish School of LIS, SSLIS
Legal settings for higher education
Role of libraries and librarians
Setting the context
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Downsizing in the public sector
Life-long learning
Development of telecommunication and ematerial
Organizational changes:
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Public libraries: centralization and concentration
University libraries: decentralization and centralization
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Primary and secondary school introducing
new educational methods
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Mainly problem based learning (PBL)
More active student participation
Legal framework which encourages cooperation and aims to stimulate interest in
reading and providing material in
education
The Libraries Act
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From 1997
Task of being the backbone for national
infrastructure for information, knowledge and
making the Swedish heritage available.
All libraries must make collections, even ecollections, available free of charge to any and
all category of users
All types of libraries and loan centers must
cooperate with public and school libraries to give
patrons high quality library service
Some numbers
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33 academic libraries open to the public
1321 public libraries 2005, 10% decrease
since 1999
Numbers from public library:
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Books: 84,3%
AV-material: 15,7%
Loans (books): 25,9% fiction, 28,8% nonfiction, 45,3% children’s books
Library and Information Science in
Sweden
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Strategies educating students to a LIS
profession:
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Generalist vs specialist and form vs content
Different sectors have different needs:
public libraries vs special libraries vs
organizations
Sets the framework for the education:
generalist/specialist, form/content
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leads to:
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4 subject areas has to be present
A: Knowledge organization and information
seeking
 B: Content to be organized and sought
 C: Tools to combine A and B
 D: Context where to understand information
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Interaction between form, content,
knowledge theory and context
D
C
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B
From Swedish National Agency for Higher Education report serie 2004:27R, p 43
HB/BHS
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6 departments: Borås, Lund, Umeå,
Uppsala, Växjö, Linköping
Borås is the biggest with 720 students, 6
professors, 13 lecturers, 29
teachers, 17 PhD students
Campus/distance
4 subject areas
4 subject areas
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Library, culture and information in society
Knowledge organization
Individual’s and group’s interaction with
information systems
Organizations and use and development of
their information resources
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All teaching personnel need to study 15
ECTS of pedagogic which includes:
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Working with syllabi
Pedagogical methods
Presentation methods
Pedagogical CV
The Higher Education Act
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From 1992
Education shall provide:
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knowledge and skills
Capability of independent and critical judgment
Ability to independently solve problems
Ability to independently follow the development of
knowledge in the field of the education
Ability to exchange information at a scientific level
Role of libraries in education
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21% of primary schools have access to
library which is staffed more than 1 hour a
day, increase 5% from 1999
Pedagogical role becoming more important
Guiding role
Information literacy
Thank you for your attention.
Questions?